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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Writer's Voice Twitter Pitch Party Rules (#WVTP)

The Writer's Voice
Twitter Pitch Party Rules

Thursday, May 24th 12pm EDT-6pm EDT

(Twitter
hashtag: #WVTP)

Here's the rules...

Pitch your finished manuscript on
the hashtag. You may pitch any time you see an agent online - just don't go
crazy and pitch more than once during an agent visit. We will monitor the
hashtag and gently inform you if you're being obnoxious. Make sure your pitch
includes the hashtag #WVTP. The agents will be hopping in and out of the
feed during the party hours. They'll tweet their requests for the manuscripts
that pique their interests. Simple. Right? Not if more than one make a request
on the same pitch, it isn't.

Keeping in the spirit of The
Writer's Voice, if two or more request the same pitch, you must choose one
of them and announce it in the feed. (They promised not to hold any rejections
against you.)

If you get a request...

After you get a request, you
must email us at thewritersvoicecontest@gmail.com, tell us
which agent requested, we'll verify the request, and send you the
agent's/agents' submission guidelines.

So get your Twitter pitches ready,
and make sure to include the hashtag.

5 comments:

Just to clarify -- when pitching, do we need to specify which agent we're directing the pitch towards or can we simply tweet a pitch (with the hashtag) at 12 pm EDT? If we should include the agent's handle in our tweet, will it be veering into obnoxious territory if we tweet the same pitch to several agents?